On August 23, 1939, the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, known historically as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, was signed in Moscow. This document, officially declaring “non-aggression” between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, was in reality a brutal plan for the political partition of Central and Eastern Europe. A secret additional protocol attached to it stipulated the … Continue reading On August 23, 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed. A day of betrayal and a harbinger of Poland’s doom.